SHAMVA, Zimbabwe (AP) — Inside a white tent with a wooden fireplace in the middle, about two dozen African girls slipped off their shoes, sat on mattresses and prepared to pour their hearts out. They ...

AFRICA: AFRICA is home to approximately 160 million adolescent girls aged 10 to 19 (according to 2022 data by the United ...

Anthony Idowu Ajayi is affiliated with the African Population and Health Research Center. Bright Opoku Ahinkorah is affiliated with the University of Technology Sydney. Abdul-Aziz Seidu does not work ...

UNICEF warns of a significant jump in the number of adolescent girls being forced into early marriage and Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) as the region's worst drought in 40 years pushes families to ...

Africa’s first ladies, led b y Sierra Leone Fatima Maada Bio brought their campaign to ban early child marriage and sexual violence against women and girls before a global stage in a passionate appeal ...